ENGLISH INTENT STATEMENT
At Scotts, we know and understand our children. We have listened to our children’s voices, and we have created a curriculum that encourages them to become enthusiastic and engaged with English. We have worked hard to provide our children with rich and varied learning opportunities that help them to become confident and enthusiastic learners. We want our children to have a positive attitude towards communication and to be able to independently express their emotions and their ideas. Through our English Curriculum, we strive to teach the children how important their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills will be in the real world. By giving this context to their learning, the children understand the value of English to them now, and in their futures.
At Scotts we want all of our pupils to be capable readers, writers, spellers and speakers, who can transfer their English skills to other curriculum subjects and who are prepared for the next steps in their education. Our English lessons develop pupils’ spoken language, reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary. English is often taught in a cross-curricular way, linking up with other areas of the curriculum. We teach our pupils to speak clearly, to convey their ideas fluently and confidently and to ask questions. We know and understand the value of excellent vocabulary and this is developed and practised across our curriculum consistently.
ENGLISH POLICY
Reading
Our pupils are encouraged to read for pleasure and to read widely throughout all areas of their learning. We use Little Wandle for our phonics programme and we understand that phonic awareness helps with the development of reading by segmenting and blending sounds. Our children are listened to in their reading regularly, both individually and in groups/whole class situations. Our whole class guided reading sessions cover a wide variety of both fiction and non-fiction books and help to advance the children’s comprehension skills. Parents are given reading guidance and clear expectations about reading at home. We have also hosted reading workshops for parents to attend.
Spelling
Our school has chosen Spelling Shed as our way to teach spellings to our children and support them to consolidate and develop their skills.
Spelling Shed is a spelling scheme for years 1-6 which gives complete coverage of the National Curriculum. Teachers are able to keep track of how children are getting on with their spellings and assign them specific spellings. There is also an option where children can play games against the other children in their class.
Examples of work
Storytime
The Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram (read by Mrs Bones)
Ruby's Worry by Tom Percival (read by Mrs Taylor)
Six Dinner Sid by Inga Moore (read by Mrs Bones)
I believe I can by Grace Byers (read by Ms Uppal)
